Can You Read The Quran Silently? Check Out The Hadiths Here

YOGYAKARTA - Reciting or reading the Qur'an is one of the recommended worships and has special virtues. However, in its reading procedure, can you read the Qur'an without sound? How is the law of Shari'a in responding to this?

Basically, reading the Qur'an with a loud voice (jahr) or in the heart (sirr), has been explained in the sunnah. The two practices are already contained in the hadith of the Prophet SAW.

However, to read the Qur'an, every Muslim only needs to adjust the right conditions.

The case of reading the Qur'an in the heart has been explained in the hadith narrated by Mu'adz. Below is the sound of his history quoted from Shahihhul Jami' Ash Shagir.

"People who screen the recitation of the Qur'an like people who show their alms and people who read the Qur'an in their hearts like people who keep their alms a secret." (HR Abu Daud, At Tirmidzi, and An Nasa'i)

As He allows for a prophet, the beauty of the voice to sing the Qur'an and filter it out. " (HR Bukhari and Muslim)

In another history, it is explained, "What Allah SWT likes the most is when the Prophet SAW reads the Qur'an in a good and soft voice." (HR Bukhari and Muslim)

Imam An Nawawi once argued, reading the Qur'an in the heart becomes more important if there are riya' concerns for its readers, disturbing people who are praying, or disturbing people who are resting/sleeping.

On the other hand, singing the holy Qur'an with a loud voice becomes more solid if it provides many benefits when heard by others around it and for its readers. This similar opinion was also explained by Imam Al Tibi in Tuhfah Al Ahwazi.

"It can raise the hearts of readers, gather their desire to think, concentrate their ears on what they read, can expel drowsiness, and increase enthusiasm," explained Imam An Nawawi, who was translated by Dr. Yusuf Al-Qardhawi in the book How to Interact with the Qur'an.

Reading the Qur'an in the heart or being screened is allowed because there are hadiths that show the Prophet SAW also does this. narrated from Abu Hurairah RA that he said, "The reading of the Prophet SAW at night is sometimes loud and sometimes in the heart (noise)." (HR Abu Daud)

It is known that the Prophet SAW had also allowed his friends who read the Qur'an in their own way. At that time, the Prophet SAW came to Abu Bakar Ash Shiddiq RA who sang the holy verses of the Qur'an in a low voice.

Furthermore, the Prophet SAW came to Umar bin Khattab RA who read the Qur'an loudly. Likewise with Bilal RA, who was found by the Prophet SAW reading the Qur'an in both ways.

Seeing this, the Prophet SAW said, "Each of you have done it well and correctly."

However, Syaikh from Darul Ifta Birmingham, Mohammed Tosir Miah added, it is recommended that Muslims who read the Qur'an in their hearts without sound still move their lips. He argues that the virtue of reading the Qur'an is in verbal pronunciation through lip movements even without sound.

This is in accordance with the sabda of the Prophet SAW, "Whoever reads one letter of the Qur'an, gets one virtue, each priority is multiplied to ten virtues. I did not say Alif Laam Mim had one letter, but Alif had one letter, Laam had one letter, and Mim had one letter." (HR Tirmidzi)

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